Analogies for Sustainable Development/Brain as garden

Your mind is like a garden, your thought are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.

Quote Bank
Gopnik, Meltzoff, & Kuhl (2000) :

"The synapses that carry the most messages get stronger and survive, while weaker synaptic connections are cut out. This process is rather like pruning a fruit tree or pinching a geranium plant. Stopping the growth in some branches strengthens the growth in other branches and changes the whole design of the plant. The brain can make a frequently used connection stronger by pruning connections that aren’t used. Experience determines which connections will be strengthened and which will be pruned; connections that have been activated most frequently get preserved."

James Allen, As a Man Thinketh (1903):

''“A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”''